After many years of cutting out my rubrics and stapling them on to finished writing samples, I realized I could embed them into my actual writing template which will save lots of time, not to mention trees! I included templates with primary lines as well as regular lines for older students. Pleas

Begin the year with some fun and fresh back to school activities to help your students get to know each other during the first weeks of school! These seven back-to-school activities, geared toward students in grades 3 through 5, are engaging and interactive! Includes all the descriptions, printables

This is a fun way to engage students in a lesson, begin a new unit, or use as an activity for inferencing! It can be used with ANY content area or subject. The Mystery Box is presented to students and students are then encouraged to guess what could be inside - give them as little or as much infor

This personal narrative writer's workshop unit is aligned with the common core standards! It uses small moments to help guide students in writing narratives about their life. This was designed with first grade in mind, but can easily work in kindergarten and second grade classrooms. I needed structu

Even your most reluctant writers will enjoy describing and creating a haunted house.HALLOWEEN WRITING ACTIVITY: HAUNTED HOUSE FOR SALE {Desriptive Writing & Craft}Halloween Writing Activity: Haunted House for Sale {Descriptive Writing and Craft}Are you looking for a fun, engaging, and creative

End of Year Activities: End the school year with some fun and fresh activities! These six end-of-the-year activities, geared toward students in grades 3 through 5, are engaging and interactive! Includes all the descriptions, printables, and instructions you'll need. Check out the preview for a close

This is a week long collection of activities to teach descriptive writing using Pop Rocks candy! There are also opportunities to discuss adjectives and similes, too! It is intended to be used as a supplement to your current ELA curriculum, and would make for great writing focus lessons for Daily 5

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This download includes the first edition of my no-prep H.O.T.S reading response sheets. The activities are designed to encourage your students to understand, create, evaluate, and analyze text on a deeper level. They are aligned to

This I Am Thankful Lapbook is perfect for the month of November. Gratitude and thankfulness is the foundation of this project. Your students will be diving deep into all the areas of their life that they feel thankful. Students will work through the prewriting process as they complete each compon

The ORIGINAL Idiom of the Week- A School Year of Idioms! SAVE $$$ WITH THIS BUNDLE:IDIOM AND QUOTE OF THE WEEK BUNDLEDo you need a new twist on teaching idioms? This product (my best seller) is 137 pages! There are 60 Idiom posters (large and smaller versions/4 to a sheet) to choose from in this un

This poetry unit for first and second grade gets students writing both form and free-verse poems as they let their creativity fly!My students love to write poetry as a break from our traditional writing units. They really buy into the "no rules" aspect of free-verse poetry and when I show them diffe

Opinion writing for primary grades! This writing unit is filled with opinion writing graphic organizers and writing prompts that get your kindergarten, first and second grade students excited about writing!Please download the preview to see if you can use it in your classroom!Help your students tack

This no-prep resource includes 37 pages (and google slides) of poetry writing activities. The vast majority of these are ready-to-use printables for 21 different kinds of poems. Each introduction worksheet includes a description of the poem, the poetry pattern, an example, and opportunities for guid

This pack is full of writing rubrics!
Scale: needs guidance, developing, meets standard, exceeds standard.
Some rubrics included in this pack include:
~General rubrics (I tried to make a variety of general rubrics to fit different needs. There are varying levels of these general rubrics.)
~Rubri

Writing Center | Kindergarten and 1st grade! This writing center offers resources for JANUARY! Help your students work independently with these monthly themed writing centers / writing work station. You can see each month by clicking on the individual units.How to use this writing center:This resour

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Prepare for descriptive writing with Let's Get Poppin' with Adjectives and Verbs!
Teaching your kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students about adjectives and verbs has never been MORE FUN! You'll use popping popcorn (either in a

Think It Through is 45 weeks of activities to ENGAGE, enrich and extend your students' creative, critical, and reflective thinking.This bundle includes weekly activities for August through June!Each of the 45 sheets begins with a child-friendly quote to interpret. I have found that interpreting quo

Now includes EDITABLE Google Slides™ Version! End of Year Snapshots is a FUN 18-page memory book for students to complete at the end of the school year. The best thing about this resource is that you can print it or it can be paperless and digital! You get 2 versions in one! My students LOVE complet

Use this writing center to help your students develop their creative writing skills! Students build a story by picking out a setting, character and event card and placing them on the writing center. Then they write a story about the cards using a vis-a-vis marker (or black dry erase marker) on the w

Writing Center | Kindergarten and 1st grade! This writing center offers resources for FEBRUARY! Help your students work independently with these monthly themed writing centers / writing work station. You can see each month by clicking on the individual units.How to use this writing center:This resou

Writing Center | Kindergarten and 1st grade! This writing center offers resources for November! Help your students work independently with these monthly themed writing centers / writing work station. You can see each month by clicking on the individual units.How to use this writing center:This resou

This opinion writing unit has 3 weeks of lesson plans, anchor charts, and writing templates that are perfect for your writers workshop opinion writing unit in Kindergarten or First Grade!
This unit has everything you need to guide your children from recognizing opinions, to verbalizing opinions, t

Writing Center | Kindergarten and 1st grade! This writing center offers resources for MARCH! Help your students work independently with these monthly themed writing centers / writing work station. You can see each month by clicking on the individual units.How to use this writing center:This resource

Daily journal writing is very important for developing writers. I create a fun journal for my students to use, every month. I allow as much creativity as possible and always encourage inventive spelling, however, some of my students always need a visual. For that reason, I include a vocabulary page